skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly there is value in having alternative view points and other sources available, and folks who are critical consumers of information will seek them out. And I found the detail and data sources in the rant very persuasive that Microsoft's actions were no more nor less 'good' than Apple's efforts at dumping late breaking fixes into the market.

I read a great exposition on Gamasutra once which very crisply derided game companies for 'squeezing' a couple more months of development time by putting out what was beta quality at best CD's with games on them during the 'shopping rush' and having a patch available basically Christmas day when most of those sales would be unwrapped and installed. High speed internet is a curse for folks who want to play 'old' games from that period, since the 'real' game, the one that was the best build, can no longer be downloaded as a patch from the manufacturer. But it didn't need to call out specific manufacturers, just example games.

So I find calling out MG Seigler to be unnecessary, as the exemplar author of a poorly articulated piece sure, but as part of the argument on whether or not big after ship patches are 'good' or 'bad', well it doesn't add value for me. I know, I'm too sensitized to this stuff and should just ignore and move on.
The render process on very page you're on right now consumes 116mb, see: http://i.imgur.com/gCA1C.png
You mean a website recommended by someone who suggests that every kid should buy $1000s worth of Apple-equipment, then pay Apple $100 for the right to program that equipment and have it entered into Apple's locked ecosystem, isn't fully free and open?

I'm hardly surprised. People these days really don't see to value freedom and openness the way they used to. It's especially disappointing to see the same trend in hacker-circles.
Really cool, and awesome implementation. I'm really digging the smooth transition on the infinite scroll. Also, the design and UI much better than the default bootstrap I've slapped on my app.

Has pintube gotten any traction yet?
Actually, it's not that subjective. Fundamentally you need to understand the blogger's job, which is not what you think it is. Their job, like it or not, is to contribute to page views. This could come due to sensationalist headlines, exclusives, "breaking" news, consistently high quality reporting, in depth analysis, etc. In some places, it's many of the above (eg TechCrunch), in others, it could be a very specific niche.

Now that you understand the blogger's job, you should be able to understand if your pitch is "worthy" to THEM. If it's not, DON'T pitch it, period.

The above might sound simplistic, but after running a marketing firm for four years, I can't tell you how often this advice is unknown, overlooked, or worse, ignored. Your news is "worthy" if it helps a blogger do their job, if not, it's just plain not worthy.

No matter how much you are proud of your accomplishment, if it's not interesting to the readership of an outlet, it's not interesting to the blogger, and that's that.
imo it's far from ideal. 1.5h battery? for 325E? it's a joke.
Considering that she didn't get a single interview, maybe the tech job scene in NYC is really just that moribund. I mean, it must be pretty bad for her to be willing to take an unpaid internship in the first place.

It sounds like her fellow interns didn't have hard skills either. They'd probably do better teaching themselves web skills or undergoing a Dev Bootcamp-like program and then applying to SV.
Ah the Leaderboard ;) The idea is really simple. People who are frequent watchers get rewarded with points and they show up at the top of the Leaderboard.
Performance is not the USP, obviously.
Let us know what you're trying to do with filters and we can add anything thats missing for your use case - support at streak dot com
You might get some mileage out of thinking of a row in the matrix product as a dot product, with the intuition that goes along with that. The dot product is perhaps easier to tie into the geometric intuition you have for linear transformations.
Twitter: who do the politicians follow?
You can do the same in Firefox by going to wikipedia, right clicking the search bar, "add a keyword", make the keyword w, and save it as a bookmark.

That way you don't need to search through google, you can search directly. Works with most search boxes.
The question is not what Verizon is doing but what is Verizon _not_ doing? The answer will be much shorter.
Also strongly agree. And am still confused about why I had to scroll down to the bottom of the comments to find people who point out what seems (to me) obvious: there is no way in hell I'm entering my credit card into an inline frame.
You seem a lot more interested in getting me to take back things than you are in taking back your misleading slide.

Substitute whatever adjectives you want if the ones I used offend you, but the point still remains that the most vocal criticism of (P)NaCl comes from Mozilla and it is anything but "balanced."

I would feel more inclined to issue an actual retraction if there was any indication that I was mistaken about this or that it would change.

That said I'm not really interested in arguing further, since we've clearly reached an impasse. I admire the work you have done with JavaScript, and I admire the work Mozilla has done over the years on many great products.
Microsoft Announces JavaScript Rival TypeScript
So mathematicians seek beauty instead of utility.

Should they deserve to starve like artists then?

Should taxpayers fund disciples (students) for them?

If yes, than should taxpayers be forced to fund students for any cult anyone wishes to start?
Yeah sure. In a weekend they could have purchased 1500 hard drives when there is a shortage and stores are limiting them to 2? I would challenge you to go to retail stores in a single day under those conditions and buy 25.
It's really, really good, especially if you're interested in the why and not just the "give me the damn test I need to run in SPSS and what number to look at". Plus, because you spend a lot of time coding, it's more fun and less dry than most stats books.
Dying woman humiliated by revealing TSA pat-down
> The whole point of bitcoin was to decouple currency from institutions (banks/governments etc.).

This may have been the goal, but if so, it's implementation was bad. The value of a bitcoin steadily appreciating as time marches forward gives it the properties of an asset, not a fiat currency [1].

Like a currency, there is a trading market that forms around the asset, but as fiat currency tends to slowly depreciate over time, it leads to much more fluidity.
Please update the title, the url is blogmaverick.com, which I think most people on HN know is Mark Cuban's blog.

I feel like Cuban wrote this post just because he needed to write a post. In the end he says "Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort. It will lead you to your passions...", and the roundabout way he goes to get there doesn't add any value.
He himself says if you're passionate about something, you're going to learn about it, and become better, etc. etc. Ignoring that that isn't completely true, I've wasted too much time just writing this comment.
Google Play: You can see country, language, carrier, device and android version of every install.
Think Java is also excellent. I think it may have been the first (non R) programming book I read, and it helped me get more into programming which wasn't just for stats.

I have recommended think stats to many people, and it appears to be somewhat of a success. And its free documentation, which is wonderful.
How about solving differential equations numerically. Such programs are used all over the place in mathematical modeling, with applications ranging from economics to electronics.

And you can't just "write a computer program that tries different parameters". You have to prove that your numerical method solves a certain class of equations first, otherwise your rocket will fly sideways, if at all.
Awesome practical example. Yer right. Life is definitely more nuanced, and acting "pleasant" 100% of the time doesn't make sense.
Facebook fought SEC to keep Mobile risks hidden before IPO
Fabulous book. The commentary on the west rings truer the older I get.
Oh boy bit coin, snore
Documentation Lock-In
Wrong. The iPhone has tremendous graphical power, especially the iPhone 5. It will eclipse the XBOX 360 in performance very soon, if it hasn't already.
Canada is a decent pilot market for the UK, since the Queen is on our money and we misspell words the same way as the UK...
You're missing something obvious, which is that out of all the airports you listed, NONE of them is named after the city it's in or near.

SFO, of course, is. Which makes this particular search MUCH more ambiguous unless you include the word "airport".
No clue! According to Wikipedia, Sedov was taken from Germany after World War 2.
I have to agree with you. In so many careers your performance is subjective. The cool thing about programming, to me, is that when there's something wrong, it's objectively wrong, meaning it can be fixed. Sure you might be able to 'fix' things more quickly or less quickly than someone else, or implement a solution better or worse. But the product you create pretty much either works or doesn't work.
I feel like a lot of people here are missing the point of the article: mainly the fact that the author is commenting on the UX of the Pay with Stripe button (compared to more complicated payment workflows) and not its tasteful use of background gradient and pretty colors.
Yes, think of the bare drive (if you don't need the enclosure) as "frustration free packaging" - ie, the kind that Amazon charges a good % markup - and people willingly pay for.
Just hate to see this part:

OnLive was a frequent customer or Prolific Oven Bakery in Palo Alto, said Regina Chan, daughter of the owner of the local chain. By the time the company went through its insolvency in August, it owed the bakery $2,000, which represented about a month's worth of Onlive's orders, she said.
They must be kidding. They're not seriously going to ask for CC credentials in a javascript popup without any means to inspect an SSL certificate?
Most webservers that I am familiar with have configurable log formatting, so you could prevent it from being logged in the first place.
And Nigeria has the largest population of English-speaking nobility.
Well, yeah, but for the obvious reason - tweets are meant to be short and consumed in large numbers, but aren't generally meaty enough for a discussion, while some people are using Google+ as essentially a blogging platform. 140 (or 256) characters is rarely enough for an entire HN discussion, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy reading dozens of tweets at a time to get a sense of what's going on.

Actually, many of those tweets have links, so in some sense Twitter competes with HN as a link aggregator, not with Google+ as a primary source.
Stripe's full api docs look like they were generated with something similar to http://rtomayko.github.com/rocco
Versant and Electrotank Take on Online Gaming's Speed
Ah, sorry, the odd-length cycle was supposed to be a hint for Colin's problem, not an actual use of bipartite graphs.

I find all the uses of bipartite graphs to be in maximal matching or similar situations.
There is nothing quite like trolling a bunch of nerds with the opinion that the entire study of pure mathematics has been a wasted endeavor for mankind...

You deserve a round of applause!

(Also, mods, where are you?)
Science: Growing Too Fast?
As a guy who writes software who doesn't write much html (because web is hard) I can't help but feel that having all these devtools built in by default, while nice for developers, seems silly to have wasting space on the hard drives of millions of users. They will never use the source viewers, live editing, page heuristics, etc, and it reeks of feature creep to me, and one product trying to be too many things at once.
tbh I got interested in the yeeloong some time ago but sadly I haven't seen a single usp besides free drivers. for that price tag it's just crap.
Indeed, plenty of good and interactive ways of making games for it too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xIBYClmTSU
That's pretty exciting. I've been using the service for a few new projects and I'm pretty happy with it. Congrats guys!
Java leads as high-performance language
Well now you're talking about the worth of the story, which is different from the worth of what was built, is it not?

An amazing pitch is not an amazing product, and vice versa. Yes a great story is going to get eaten up by bloggers. But that doesn't apply to rule #0 above.
POSIX is an interface not an implementation.
If Twitter Gets Into The Video-Hosting Game,
Sorry, I don't mean to sound super discouraging about Amazon -- I think it can be a great fit for right out of college if you're looking for some great experience in a fast paced environment. They do have a very high burnout rate though, as many people leave around the two year mark. One of my friends has had three different managers in the past year (one fired, two quit).

I think as my specific social circle is reaching the twilight of our 20s, those environments are less and less appealing for a lot of us but a few wouldn't trade it for the world.
It... really shouldn't be doing that. What is your precise workflow?
Do we really need a CMS or any other tool for good looking documentation? I don't think so. All that is needed to make good documentation is ability to write good content and present it in a simple manner. Tools doesn't matter.

A look at source of filepicker.io documentation is enough to tell that it is using twitter bootstrap for its documentation. They have three static pages powered by twitter bootstrap, one each for web, ios and android documentation.
"In a statement, the new OnLive said its predecessor's basic problem was not its business model but that it simply hadn't raised enough cash for its business to take off."

How do you tell when a startup is just desperate for cash and when they actually mean something like this?
Get a job you bum!

It's actually a pretty good idea. I wonder if it's more thorough than what a university's career services office can offer.

I'd be interested in finding out the success rates. Connections are good, but will they accept you and will you be good enough? That's the challenge and there doesn't seem to be any guarantee.
don't know they should resize a file before uploading it and attaching it to a post

That's a job for a computer, not a human. It's a waste of an editor's time to dwell on such details, just as it's a waste of a newspaper editor's time to worry about the ink in the printing machines.
Typo. I meant to say "without"
There might be an overall QA problem here: anyone else noticed vocational spelled with an extra a?
Enterprise AppZone Extends Mobile App Management with Web.
The former, not the latter, which has little to do with drug consumption.
The truth about hacker news
The Future of Your Office Is Wireless
As someone who has found himself working on the seedy underbelly of PR (mostly joking), this is something so many pitches fail to achieve.

TechCruch's Jordan Cook wrote a great article about dealing with email as a reporter -- http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/05/i-hate-email/
VMware integrates DynamicOps self-service IT portal into vCloud Suite
The intelligent way to do that nowadays is to use automatic differentiation followed by optimization "plugins". And that has little to with proving theorems unless you consider all computer programs as proofs and all computer programmers as mathematicians.
Is this not an understood risk of selling muffins on credit?
So, Are we in a new tech bubble? (slides with graphs)
No, it would not eliminate the big advantage of the web as you say, merely deepen it.

See Tim Berners-Lee: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMa...
I kind-of hope they make it as a service. As a pure consumer of their product, I quite enjoyed it.
> Linear algebra gives you mini-spreadsheets for your math equations.

Okay, that lets you visualize it (in the finite case) but it's a terrible way to sell it. Spreadsheets are booooring. Did you know that functions are vectors? Okay, better. Did you know that quantum mechanics is all about linear algebra? Okay, sold!

1. Almost any time you work in more than one dimension you will want linear algebra in your toolbox. There are a zillion methods for solving (non-linear) equations out there, and in more than one dimension, they use linear algebra. Newton's method? Incredibly useful in practice due (quadratic convergence rocks!), and with some linear algebra sauce BOOM you have Newton's method in as many dimensions as you can sneeze at.

2. Oh, by the way... did you know that the Fourier transform is linear?

3. Back to quantum mechanics... there's a thing you can do with a linear operator (a matrix is a kind of linear operator) where you get the "spectrum" of the linear operator. It's useful for making sense of big matrices. But in QM, the wavefunctions for electrons are described as eigenfunctions of a linear operator, and taking the "spectrum" of the linear operator gives you the actual spectrum of light that the chemical under study emits. Hence the name, "spectral theorem". It may be linear algebra on paper, but it's laser beams and semiconductors in the real world.

4. Oh hey, want to learn about infinite-dimensional vector spaces? Maybe some other time..

5. It's hella useful for modeling. Any model is wrong, but Markov processes are useful. Say you run an agency that rents out moving vans, and you have facilities in 30 cities. Vans rented in city A have a 10% chance of being dropped off in city B, 7% in city C, 9.2% in city D, etc. At this rate, how long till you run out of vans in city F? It's a differential equations problem with like 30 different equations! Or you could rewrite it as a single equation with matrices. You'll end up with weird things like 'e^(A*t)' where A is a matrix, and you thought "no way I can exponentiate to the power of a matrix" but spectral decomposition is like "yes way!" and you can solve the equation by diagonalization. Radical! (Basically, linear algebra rescues differential equations from the pits of intractability. I'm using rental vans as an example, but it could be a chemical reaction or a nuclear reaction or a million subway riders or whatever you want.)

So the question is:

Do you find economics, quantum physics, chemistry, engineering, classical mechanics, machine learning, statistics, etc. useful?

Then get some linear algebra in you!
or a missing space... "a vocation"
Native Apps Versus Mobile Web: A Primer For Publishers
So you pay a few hundred dollars and wait a few days to a week every time you sign up to an online service such as Pay Pal for them to read over the terms and conditions. The same with any Microsoft, Google and Amazon accounts? Did you get them to check over the Microsoft license or Apple license before you loaded your operating system on a computer you use for business?
Capacitive fingerprinting to create multi-user touchscreens
"one that will eventually have to be repeated"

That's the point. With pg_reorg, you can easily partition tables on a daily basis without degradation to performance or sharding.
Not only that but you can't share the game with your friends (or can you?) Is there a way for them to install the game without also getting a $100 license?

As for Java though, I think kids would do a lot better with JavaScript ;-)
It's nice to think of a search engine as something that can actually be tuned to a desired output. Nice to see. You're absolutely right that we have come to think of this problem as solved, and it isn't.
Newborns don't come out with all knowledge in their heads already. I'm simply alerting younger people to facts, there's absolutely no reason to get mods involved. Otherwise most of HN should be banned (since a lot of it is not completely fresh news). Why alert the mods, are you a scared pure mathematician?
LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, Part Deux
I'm wondering if you could expand on that some? I had tried the product several times and just consistently found it lacking (sluggish controls, etc.).
The idea of getting kids to learn to do mobile games is commendable.

But getting their parents to spend €1000 in the Mac, €100 in an Apple Developer and €389 (+ 2 year contract) for the iPhone is just too much.

Specially when many countries have an average income of around €500 euros.

Kids should learn using open systems that don't cost their parents an arm and a leg to pay for them.
Also by my reading the UUID conventions are hashes of other names to make them fit the UUID format... not hashes of specific content.
> PS: you're saying I only need to search banks in the bay area for one with that color scheme, floor tile, and banker, then drill/blast the box shown and make off with 90% of Coinbase's deposits in untraceable cash?

You'll also need to AES-256 decrypt the contents of the box.
Fremont is top US city for for tech startups
Dynamic spreadsheets in Java web applications
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The FDIC only insures deposits of US Dollars. Nothing Coinbase does is remotely close to being FDIC insurable.
Same here, but now I wonder what the FireBug developers will do.
Teenager cracks Chrome again
I would have disliked it more if it was the original owners, once Ms. Chan bought it the quality of the cakes suffered, especially in the Saratoga store. It went from being my 'go to' place for a delicious chocolate on chocolate cake to 'I've not been there for like 3 years now.'
To say nothing of the people! We've hired three just in my group alone. At least some of their assets haven't lost value...
How to work seamlessly between Windows & MAC
Ditto. But I'm using an iPhone, so maybe the Verizon-provided stuff is just not there?
There's a difference between "strange" and "creepy".

Something can be really common and still really creepy.
Personally, having loud audio blaring at me when simply starting the program was enough of a turn off. Nevermind the fact that my connection speed was consistently too slow to actually play a game. Certainly not their fault, but I know I'm not alone in having crappy internet.
The concept is called 'capitalization' and the statement is that Onlive was under capitalized to execute on their primary strategy.

The basics are pretty simple, you start with some money (capital) and you spend it to build the product, somewhere along the way you start selling product and getting revenue, the revenue grows and eventually it provides enough money to pay all your bills (operationally cash flow positive).

You capitalize the company such that you have enough money to do what you need to do until you get that cash flow positive point. If you don't have enough money your bank account goes to zero before revenues cover cost. If you have too much money you still have a lot of money in the bank when it starts growing again.
Arch Linux switches to systemd
Thanks Brendan, that is good news, added to the cc list, looking forward.
I'm not sure what automatic differentiation has to do with solving diff. equations but...

I assume that all those automatic methods you mention are passed down from above in some sort of holy scriptures that we're supposed to blindly believe and use? Or maybe some "pencil pushing" mathematician came up with them first and _proved_ that they actually work?
I like sphinx (e.g. readthedocs.org), if you need to generate documentation for your code
> And an inline popup that I would never trust to enter my credit card details. Wasted first impression on me.

Then you wouldn't trust any non-brand-name site that sells things via credit card charges (which makes you fall outside of the entire e-commerce consumer space).

Stripe isn't for Amazon and eBay, it's for those thousands of other sites out there that accept credit cards. If you would shop there using an inline payment form, you would still shop there with the modal <div> payment form. Believe it or not, people trust and use these kinds of sites every day.